Undergarment



May 29, 1923. 1,456,814

2. B. MOORE UNDERGARMENT Filed @611, 23, 1918 fnz/erzz ar' Zola. B. %07'6 Patented li/ilay 29, 1923.

iaaei a ZQLA IB. MOORE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

UNDERGARMENT.

Application filed October 23,1918. Serial No. 259,440.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZOLA B. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at .2652 South Hoover Street, in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, and State of California, have invented a new and useful Undergarment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in drawers and union suits comprising a body having legs united by a permanently closed crotch and having an open-front and an opening in the rear and are made of any suitable material, for the use of males only. It is adapted to use by applying acertain reinforcement at the front of said garments.

My invention is made of .material such as' that of a garment cut in such shape that it protects the garment on each side of the middle opening high enough above the crotch and low enough into the seat, to prevent the male organs coming into contact with any part of. the garment which is of only one thickness. This reinforcement is placed on the inside by preference. This lengthens the life of the garment many times. Garments heretofore worn by males without this reinforcement have been subject to break down at this point in a short time, when the rest of the garment shows no -wear. Not only is the long life or wear of the garment a valuable thing, but the firm support afiorded, by this invention is conducive to great comfort to the wearer as it which the male dresses him elf.

This invention, relates to anunder-garment for males, and particularly to the class including reinforced nether undergarments.

An object of the invention is to provide an under-garment of this character which will be superior in ease and comfort to the wearer, and will also aiford superior wear and longer life of garment with minimum amount of material.

An object of this invention is to produce a great saving of garments by eliminating wear which heretofore has been so destructive to mens garments.

Furthermore, mensunion-suits are subject to become loose and ba gy at the front just about the level and below the level of the crotch on account of the peculiar strains prevents the usual sagging on the side upon v upon that portion of the garment caused by the masculine anatomy, and an object of this invention is to construct a union suit which will more perfectly retain its form than with garments of this kind heretofore manufactured.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a simple union-suit or light undergarmentfor men that the same will operate as a substitute for suspensories now worn by men and will afford tothe wearer the comfort and ease which such suspensories are intended to afford to those of the male sex not engaged in sedentary pursuits and yet will be neat-fitting, soft and pliable and will yield ready access to the organs in the quickest and simplest way.-

I have discovered that without making the garment clumsy or uncomfortable all of these objects can be. attained by very simple and inexpensive means; viz, the application to the garment of a reinforcing piece of material which may preferably be of the same character as that of the garment and which extends over that front portion of the garment which contacts with the male organs.

In cases where the wearer invariably dresses on one side only, it would be sulficient to apply a reinforcing piece to that side only of the garment on which he dresses, but owing to the fact that the male may dress on either side I provide a piece which extends upon both sides of the front midline so as to accommodate both modes of dressmg. 7

An object of this invention is to makepro vision whereby both styles of masculine dressing may be accommodated by a well fitting garment that will hold its form, resist wear, and support the dependencies of the male anatom It is noted that at times of certain excitement and at other times in vigorous young men the strain and wear upon the material of the garment by one of the male organs is at a considerable level above the crotch but close to the midline of the garment.

The invention is broadly new and pioneer in that there has never heretofore been any close fitting under-garmentprovided with a reinforcingpiece adapted to receive and sus ltain the direct pressure of such sex organ of the wearer under such conditions.

. and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention.

Figure 1 is a front view of a union-suit constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan on an enlarged scale at line 00 of the union-suit shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 00 Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a plan of the duplex reinforcing piece.

Fig. 5 is a view of a construction in which the reinforcing piece'is applied outside of the material of the main body of the garment. J

The garment may be of any knit, woven or other material suitable for drawers or union-suits of under-wear, and comprises the body 1, and the legs 2, 3, united by the permanently closed crotch 4, all of the usual construction ermanent closed-crotch undergarments; he' reinforcement 5 is preferabl of substantially'the same kind of mate ria as the garment at the place where said garment is reinforced, and constitutes a comfort patch conformed to the arment at one or both sides ofthe front midline opening thereof, and extending over sufiiciently to accompllsh the urpose above outlined, and stitched by stitc es 6, at its edges to the material of the garment and also extending downwardly on the inside of the legs and over the usual crotch seam 7, behind which it extends in a transverse ogee curve 8, to both ends of the rear central point 9, and one side of said downwardly extending portions terminating at the lower edge of the rear opening of the garment.

Said reinforcing piece in practice consists of a patch one end of which is in the form of a parabola which is slit at d to form two lobes a, b. The other end of the patch is spaced-some distance from the end of the slit to form a neck 0 which connects the lobes at their lower portion when the garment is positioned with the body up and legs down. The lower end of said patch curves centrally on each side of the produced line of said slit, in the form of an ogee curve and thereby forms a recess at the central point 9, which recess terminates at some distance from the inner end of said slit, to form the neck 0. The two ogee curves on the lower edge of the patch terminate at the produced line of said slit.

In practice the reinforcing piece may be stamped in quantities from material of the same general character as that of the garment body and after the garment has been 7 income made in the usual manner of manufacturing,-

siderable distance on both sides of the openfront to reinforce that portion of the garment which is subject to the wear and strain as set forth. The edges of said piece are appropriately stitched or otherwise permanently fastened to the body material of the garment; the edges of the slit being fastened to the edges f, of the front opening h of the garment. en the piece has thus been fastened to the inside faceof the garment, said garment is ready for wear.

In practical use the reinforcing piece supported by thegarment proper receives the pressure and the wear of the male organs, irrespective of the side on which the wearer dresses; with the result that a superior sense of comfort is given to the wearer and the life of the garment is very greatly increased. The support is effective to both the front and undersides of the organs to be supported, and particularly to the front and under surface of the central organ under conditions which are likely to frequently occur, and the strain upon the garment is relieved so that it does not break away nor become loose and baggy.

I do not intend to confine the invention to the garment in which the reinforcing piece is fastened-to the inner side as distinguished from the outer side of the garment body, although the construction with the reinforcement inside is preferable on account of the neatn'ess of appearance and the direct contact of the male organs and the direct reception of the strain that is applied on the inside as contradistinguished from the outside of the garment body.

I claim,

1. An undergarment for men comprising a body having legs united by a permanently closed-crotch and having an open-front and an opening in rear; a reinforcing patch fastened to the garment and extending upwardly on the front of said garment from about the. level of the crotch and the middle crotch and the lower edge of said open-front middle of saidopen-front, and downwardly on the inside of the legs of said garment and over the usual crotch seam, and one side of said downwardly extending portions and a short distance at each side of the 115 thereof to a considerable distance above the thereto, said reinforcing piece receiving 1 Wear and strain imposed by the central organ of the male anatomy.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 16 day of October, 1918.

, ZOLA B. MOORE. Witness:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND. 

